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Pupil Power

The Forest enjoys the enthusiastic support of local schools and throughout the planting season the area's children turned out to lend a hand.

Schools get involved in a wide variety of ways. Here's the 'roll of honour' just of those that took part in planting at new woodlands being created in The National Forest.

  • Abbotsholme Junior
  • Albert Village Primary School
  • Aldercar Infant and Nursery, Langley Mill
  • Anglesey Foundation Primary School
  • Arnold View Primary School, Nottingham
  • Bishop Lonsdale Church of England Aided Primary School, Derby
  • Blue Bell Hill Primary School, Nottingham
  • Bramley Vale Primary School, Chesterfield
  • Charnwood Primary School
  • Church Broughton
  • Clifton Junior School, Birmingham
  • Clifton Primary School
  • Crich Carr Primary School
  • Edge Hill Junior School
  • Etwall Primary School
  • Fairmeadows Foundation Primary School
  • Granby Primary School
  • Hartshorne C of E Primary
  • Hawksley Church Primary School, Kings Norton
  • Heather County Primary
  • Heathfields Primary School, Hatton
  • Heathmount Junior School, Birmingham
  • Hilton Primary School, Hilton
  • Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Burton upon Trent
  • Kegworth Primary School
  • Kniveton C of E Primary School
  • Long Lane C of E Primary School, Ashbourne
  • Melbourne Primary
  • Merrill College
  • The Merton School
  • The Mosley Primary School, Burton upon Trent
  • Needwood C of E Primary at Newborough
  • Newhall Junior School, Chesterfield Drive, Swadlincote
  • Nightingale Infant School
  • Nightingale Junior School, Derby
  • Overseal County Primary
  • Packington C of E Primary
  • Rosliston C of E Primary
  • Slater Primary School
  • Southfields Infant School, Leicester
  • Stenson Fields Primary School
  • Stetchford Primary School, Stetchford
  • Stirchley Community School, Stirchley
  • St Hardulph's Church of England Primary School
  • St Paul's C of E Primary at Woodhouse Eaves
  • St Peter's C of E Primary at Yoxall
  • Smallwood Manor Preparatory at Uttoxeter
  • South Charnwood High School
  • Thornton County Primary
  • Walton on Trent C of E Primary
  • Woodcote Primary School, Ashby de la Zouch
  • Worthington Primary School
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Gallery

  • Barton-Under-Needwood Village sign
  • Children singing in Calke Abbey
  • Sculptors Philip Eames and Trevor Cooper with their sculpture of a wooden horse and handler
  • A close up of the new Newborough gateway sculpture
  • The stone and metal Village Sculpture at Revenstone
  • One of six new bird totems installed at Thornton
  • The creation of living willow sculptures by children at Stanton School
  • Children playing in an indoor activity centre at Conkers
  • Kids planting a tree
  • Kids 'ponding'
  • Sweet Chestnut emerging from shell
  • Guests on a woodland break
  • Children helping The National Forest by plant trees
  • Children being nature detectives and listening and looking for wildlife
  • People walking past trail signs
  • Line of people walking along forest path
  • Runners completing race through The National Forest
  • Birthday Walk logo
  • John Moore (61) - Retired after a career with Severn Trent
  • acorn amongst leaves on the branch of a tree
  • Andrew Brown- Jackson working with BTCV expert volunteers to build a dry stone wall
  • Johnson Controls Gold Medal for international Corporation Achievement in Sustainable Development
  • BTCV volunteers on a BTCV conservation holiday
  • BTCV volunteers planting a new woodland at Tinknall

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